Hyperledger Announces Aries, a Toolkit for Blockchain-Based Identity Management

Everyone has a form of sovereign identity, said Evermym's Drummond Reed during CoinDesk LIVE on Tuesday.

Reed and Brian Behlendorf, executive director of Hyperledger, were there to launch their new identity management system.

That, he said, was the equivalent of state-of-the-art when it came to digital identity.

In an effort to bring identity into the 21st century, the pair have just launched a new, open source framework for identity management, Aries.

Reed said the Hyperledger's tools are already being used to build government identity projects.

One project, called the Verifiable Organizations Network, is the first public permissioned production ledger for self-sovereign identity.

With self-sovereign identity tools like Aires you reduce the time it takes to spin up identity systems.

A blockchain interface layer for creating and signing blockchain transactions.

An implementation of the Decentralized Key Management System specification currently being incubated in Hyperledger Indy.

The project is an offshoot of two other Hyperledger efforts: Indy for identity management and Ursa for security.